Poultry-car



(No Model.)

J. MORAN.

POULTRY GAR.-

No. 375,764. Patented Jan. 3. 1888.

E 'f w INVENTOR Moran.

'AttorneyS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN MORAN, or ADAIR, MISSOURI.

POU LTRY-CA R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 375,764, dated January 3, 1858,

Application filed November 10, l87. Serial No. 251,797. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN MORAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Adair, in the county of Adair and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Poultry-Oars; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the'same.

This invention has relation to improvements in cars for shipping poultry; and it has forits object to construct a car in such a manner as to afford great capacity, with a View to cleanliness, &c.,and to attainlightness and atthe same time render the car readily convertible for the purpose of transporting freight of any character.

The invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims when taken in connection with the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal central sectional view of a car constructed according to my invenlion. Fig. 2 is a view ofone ofthe vertical partitions and rafters removed. Fig. 3 is a view of one of thefoldingfloorsremoved. Fig. 4. is a perspective view of one of the troughs removed. Fig. 5 is a view of a spoon for delivering the food to the troughs. Fig. 6 is a view of one of the transverse bars for supporting the floors of the compartments. Fig. 8 is a cross sectional view of one of the uprights, showing the end of a cross-bar in position. Fig. 7 is a side view of the same. Fig. 9 is alsoacrossscctional view of one of the uprights. Fig. 10 is a view of one of the cross supporting bars; and Figs. 11, 12, and 13 are views of the sockets for receiving and supporting the uprights.

Referring by letter to the said drawings, A indicates a car which is mounted on asuitable truck. This car is composed of a suitable base or floor, 13, having secured at suitable points along its side edges thesockcts C. These sockets have a base-flange, as shown, which is perforated to receive nails, screws, or other suitable fastening devices, .and the verticallydisposed sockets are of rectangular or polygonal form, so as to prevent the said posts from turning when seated, and the said sockets are also perforated transversely, as at I), for the passage ofa pin to secure the posts from ver tical displacement. The roof or rafters of the car are also provided with similar sockets to receive the upper ends of the said uprights. The uprights D, which are preferably of metal, have their opposite ends flattened so as to snugly seat themselves in the sockets.

E indicates brackets,which I employ at the corners. These brackets are of angular form, having a vertical socket, e, at the anglethereot' to receive the corner uprights, and these an gular brackets havea vertical marginal flange, f,(see Fig. 13,) to engage the edges of the main floor,to which the same is suitably secured.

D indicates the corner uprights,which are formed with aligned lugs g on opposite sides and placed at regular intervals. On these posts are placed collars or rings G,having off set recesses I at diametrically-opposite points, so that by turning the said rings so as to have their recesses coincide with the lugs of the posts they may be adjusted up and down thereon, so as to be placed at any desired point to support the cross-bars upon which the floors of the compartments bear. H H indicate the cross-bars for supporting the removable floors. These cross bars may e hinged about midway of their length,so that the same may be folded for compact shipping when the car is not to be used for shipping poultry,and its ends are forked so as to receiv c the posts or uprights.

The forks are sufficiently great to span the lugs on the posts,whereby they may be moved up and down when the rings are moved; but are designed to bear upon the rings which support them. Thus it will be seen that the floors of each compartment may be adjusted to any suitable point according to the height of the compartment required, and this may be accomplished while the compartments are occupied as well as when the car is empty.

The side and end walls of the car are formed of horizontal and vertical bars, so as to approximately rcsemble a bird cage or coop and permit plenty of light and air to the fowls.

I indicates the supplemental floors, which are formed of sheet metal, although they may be formed from any suitable material. These floors are made in sections hinged together so that they be folded up when not in use, and they are also supported at the sides of the car by bars in a manner heretofore mentioned.

On the under side at the top of the car Isecure cross-girders K,which are provided with dependent pins i, which are designed to enter perforations in the upper horizontal edge of the vertical partitions, as shown. These vertical partitions L are also formed from sheet metal, perforated and hinged so as to fold compaetly when not in use. I also provide a perforated door for each compartment, asindicated at M. These doors arehinged to the side walls of the car, and have a spring, m, back of them.so that they may be normally kept closed. The car thus constructed is designed to be divided into four or more compartments for fowls and a central compartment for the storage of food and the accommodation of the attendant. This central compartmentis shown at N, and has an upper perforated side with a lower closed portion and a window arranged between the two. The sides of this central compartment, may have apertures to receive hooks or the like on food-troughs, as indicated in Fig. 40f the drawings, and such trough may be advantageously employed in each compartment, as the same can be reached and the food delivered to them by means of a long spoon, as illustrated in Fig. 5.

From the foregoing description, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, it will be seen that I have a car the sanitary condition of which is greatly improved,

ends forked to sustain the removable floors,

substantially as specified.

2. A poultry-car composed of open-work sides and ends, the sockets on the top and bottom to receive the opposite ends of the uprights,cross-barssupported by the uprights, removable folding floors supported by the crossbars, and removable hinged partitions, substantially as specified.

3. In a car, the combination, with the up rights having lugs, as described, of the crossbars and rings, and the removable fioors,substantially as specified.

4. In a railway-car, the combination, with the rafters having depending pins, of t-hepartitions having apertures in their upper ends to receive the same, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereofI affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN MORAN.

W'itnesses:

J. O. THATCHER, JOHN W. JOHNSTON. 

